Monday Fulham Stuff (26/12/16)...

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Town Face Fulham Looking to Extend 53-Year Unbeaten Run

Town go into the Boxing Day home game against Fulham looking to extend an unbeaten run stretching back precisely 53 years and aiming to record back-to-back wins for the first time this season. The Whites' last victory over the Blues was their famous 10-1 win at Craven Cottage in the old First Division on Boxing Day 1963.

Graham Leggat scored four (including a three-minute hat-trick, then the fastest in the top flight), Bobby Howfield three and future legendary Blues boss Bobby Robson, Maurice Cook and Alan Mullery one each as Fulham romped to what's still their record victory and the Blues' record defeat. Gerry Baker netted the only goal for Town.

The Blues, who were managed by Jackie Milburn, restored some pride by beating the same opposition 4-2 at Portman Road two days later with Billy Baxter, Danny Hegan, Joe Broadfoot and Baker again on target, while Leggat grabbed another along with Johnny Key for the Whites.

The Cottagers have gone 13 games in all competitions (nine in the league) without a win against the Blues. Their most recent win at Portman Road came in March of the same year when they beat Sir Alf Ramsey's Town by a single goal.

While the teams are unlikely share 11 goals as they did 53 years ago, Fulham's recent matches have featured their fair share of goals. Their last away game ended in a 4-4 draw at Wolves and they drew 2-2 at home to Derby County a week ago.

Town boss Mick McCarthy has been impressed with the Whites, who are ninth in the division, five points and six places above the 15th-placed Blues, having scored 38 goals, more than anyone else in the Championship aside from leaders Newcastle United, who have hit 45. By comparison Town have scored only 22 in the first 22 league matches.

"They're a good side," McCarthy said. "[U23s coach] Gerard Nash went to watch them, he saw them live against Derby and they played very well, that was a two-all draw. They had a four-all draw with Wolves.

"They're a good side, they're on the up certainly. We've watched two and a bit of their games and I've been very impressed with them."

He says the Londoners are looking a better prospect for promotion this year than in the previous two seasons following their May 2014 relegation from the Premier League.

"When they came down in the first season everybody thought they would be one that were going to bounce back," McCarthy reflected.

"But they seemed to have such a turmoil and they've changed their manager two or three times.

"But with Slavisa Jokanovic, who got promoted with Watford, he had a tough start but he's got them well organised now and I think they'll be a threat for the play-offs, definitely."

McCarthy is looking for his side to build on last week's 3-2 win at Wigan and record two wins on the trot for the first time since the final two games of last season.

"Back-to-back wins would be terrific and it's a long time since it's happened," he admitted. "It would be great, especially for the fans at home, of course."

McCarthy seems likely to stick with the 4-3-3 system in which the Blues started last week's game at the DW Stadium with Bartosz Bialkowski in goal and a back four of, from the right, skipper Luke Chambers, Adam Webster, Christophe Berra and Jonas Knudsen.

In midfield Cole Skuse will be in his usual holding role and Andre Dozzell seems likely to be handed his first home Championship start of the season.

Jonny Williams's absence for 12 weeks following surgery on the shoulder injury he sustained at Wigan means McCarthy will be forced into one change and Kevin Bru, who was impressive from the bench against the Latics, could start his first game since the Burton match in October, while Jonathan Douglas is another option with Teddy Bishop also sidelined with an ankle injury.

McCarthy could stick with the same front three that started at Wigan with Tom Lawrence on the left, Freddie Sears on the right and Brett Pitman down the middle.

Along with Bru, David McGoldrick and Grant Ward turned the game around after coming on as subs at Wigan but McCarthy hinted in his press conference that that doesn't necessarily mean they will go into his starting XI on Monday.

"[Wigan] took over the game after half-time and I had to change it and the subs all helped change the game.

"But that's what they're there for, it doesn't always mean to say they have to play the following week."

Fulham could recall Suffolk-born former Norwich striker Chris Martin, who was unavailable against his parent club Derby last week.

Centre-half Tomas Kalas has been ruled out with a hamstring problem, while another central defender, Icelandic international Ragnar Sigurdsson, could miss out due to a knock which forced him off against the Rams.

Cottagers' boss Jokanovic says he and his squad will be treating the match as they would any other, despite having to train and travel on Christmas Day.

"It's an important family day but at the same time we are professional in this football business," he told the official Fulham site.

"We will have working days on the 24th and 25th to make sure we are ready for Boxing Day.

"We will stay the night in Ipswich and we will have a similar schedule to that which we have for normal games. It's a special day for all football fans and we have to be ready for the game."

In April at Portman Road, Jonas Knudsen scored an injury time equaliser, the Danish international's first goal for the Blues, as Town and Fulham drew 1-1, Moussa Dembele having put the visitors ahead in the 66th minute.

In December last year at Craven Cottage, Freddie Sears and Brett Pitman were on target as Town beat Fulham 2-1 to win a fourth away league game on the trot for first time in more than 11 years.

Sears netted after just 16 seconds as the Blues made an explosive start, before Cottagers' skipper Ross McCormack equalised with a freekick in the 14th minute, but Pitman secured the points when he turned in Sears's cross on 57.

Historically, the Blues have been victorious on nine occasions (six in the league), Fulham on eight (seven) and with eight (six) games ending in draws.

Town are unbeaten in their last five Boxing Day fixtures, winning four, including last season's 2-1 home win over QPR.

In addition to the 1963 meeting, the Blues and Fulham also faced one another on Boxing Day in 1999 at Craven Cottage when the game ended 0-0.

Ex-Town loanee Ryan Tunnicliffe, who was linked with a return to the Blues earlier in the week, joined the Cottagers in January 2014 from Manchester United after ending his spell at Portman Road early, while former midfielder Brian Talbot is the chief scout at Craven Cottage, where he briefly played late on in his career.

Another ex-Blues loanee, Richard Stearman, remains a Fulham player but is on loan back with his former club Wolves for the season.

Boxing Day's community champion is five-year-old Oliver Turner who is undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy having had a kidney removed after being diagnosed with a Wilms tumour in March.

TWTD Forum posters have clubbed together and have produced banners which will be on display at Portman Road during Oliver's big day.

Monday's referee is Oliver Langford from the West Midlands, who has shown 68 yellow cards and four red in 22 games so far this season.

Langford's most recent Town game was the 2-0 home victory over Burton Albion in which he booked Cole Skuse and two Brewers.

Prior to that he was in charge of the 0-0 home draw with Charlton in April in which he yellow-carded Jonas Knudsen and two Addicks.

He also took control of the 2-1 home defeat to Leicester in November 2013, in which he booked only Luke Chambers.

The only other Town game he has refereed was the 2-0 defeat at Leeds in April of the same year when David Norris, by then with the Whites, was the only player cautioned.

Squad from: Bialkowski, Gerken, Chambers (c), Knudsen, Emmanuel, Kenlock, Webster, Berra, Skuse, Douglas, Bru, Dozzell, Ward, Lawrence, Varney, McGoldrick, Sears, Best, Pitman.



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Slavisa Jokanovic on why Fulham won't be repeating 10-1 victory over Ipswich
It was a win that those of a certain generation will remember to this day as the west Londoners won 10-1 at Craven Cottage in what remains their record victory

Fulham face Ipswich on Boxing Day, which marks the 53rd anniversary of when the Whites last claimed victory over the Tractor Boys, who were English champions 18 months ago.

It was a win that those of a certain generation will remember to this day as the west Londoners won 10-1 at Craven Cottage in what remains their record victory.

It was a day of peculiar results with a 2-0 win for Leicester against Everton the most mundane. Burnley beat Manchester United 6-1, West Ham were thrashed 8-2 at home to Blackburn, West Brom and Spurs played out a 4-4 draw while Nottingham Forest and Wolves both drew 3-3 with Sheffield United and Aston Villa respectively.


Allow me: Graham Leggat (right) picks up the ball for tired Ipswich keeper Roy Bailey after the third of four goals he scored in Fulham's 10.

Graham Leggat scored the fastest top flight hat-trick, which stood until Sadio Mane's treble in 2015, and finished the afternoon with four. Bobby Howfield rivalled the Fulham star for the match ball with a treble of his own. Sir Bobby Robson, Alan Mullery and Maurice Cook also found the net.

Whites boss Slavisa Jokanovic, unsurprisingly, believes a freak result like that will never happen again and would be content with a scrappy 1-0 victory as it means three points.

He said: "No. I don't believe something like this would happen these days. Everything's different these days. The team are only focused on the three points, not this record or this kind of result."


http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/slavisa-jokanovic-fulham-wont-repeating-12367755

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Nantes plotting audacious Ayite move
by DAN on DECEMBER 24, 2016

Nantes are planning to table an audacious January bid for Fulham winger Floyd Ayite, according to various reports in France this afternoon.

The Togo international has only been at Craven Cottage for six months after signing from Bastia in the summer and has enjoyed an excellent start to his Fulham career, scoring four goals in his last three outings. Fulham would give short shrift to any attempt to prize their in-form winger away from London and the 28 year-old forward told the Football League paper only last week how much he was enjoying life at his new club and was determined to help the Whites return to the top flight.

Nantes are actively seeking alternatives to former Fulham winger Alex Kacaniklic, who has only managed ten appearances signing leaving Craven Cottage on a free transfer last summer, and may also be actively interested in signing Bournemouth's Max Gradel. Ayite, who is under contract with Fulham until the summer of 2019, is shortly due to fly out to Gabon to represent Togo in the African Cup of Nations.


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Malone ready for 'physical' Ipswich challenge
by DAN on DECEMBER 24, 2016

Scott Malone knows exactly what to expect from Ipswich Town and Mick McCarthy on Boxing Day – having had the former Republic of Ireland boss as his first manager when he was coming through as a youngster at Wolves.

The Fulham full-back says the Whites will face a typically robust challenge from McCarthy's side at Portman Road and revealed that Slavisa Jokanovic has had his team-mates prepared for the type of long-ball approach that has posed them problems at times this season. Malone told FulhamFCTV in the run-up to the game that he is no doubt as to how the hosts will approach the game:

A physical one. He [McCarthy] was my first manager when I was at Wolves about five or six years ago. Organised, well-drilled, physical. Long balls probably. That's where we have come unstuck in the last three or four weeks, so if we get that right, we should be okay. The teams that play football, I think we are pretty comfortable and I think we've shown that, so getting a tough, physical side that plays long balls in the air, it's a good test for us. You'd rather have it now than in two or three weeks time, so if we can get it right Monday then it should give us good confidence.

Malone also feels that the trip to Suffolk will provide the perfect chance to get back to winning ways after the disappointment of failing to claim three points against promotion chasing Derby at Craven Cottage last week.

There's been a lot of them this season. I think it's the last ten, fifteen, twenty minutes of games. It's not all the games, but we've dropped a lot of points and we're still four points off the play-off, so we're there or thereabouts.

The former Cardiff and Millwall full-back feels Fulham can benefit from going under the radar as the pundits have largely ignored their prospects of getting into the play-off positions to date.

I think that's how you'd want it. The longer you can go still in that group, no-one's really talking about you, as long as you are hunting the pack rather than being hunted, I think it's a good scenario. I think the manager has given us a schedule that's pretty much the same as always, bearing in mind it's not the same days in and out, but it's the same sort of thing. Everyone's confident – and everyone's up for the challenge.


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Parker: Credit To The Fans

Scott Parker is hoping to reward the travelling Fulham fans with a festive three points on Monday afternoon.

Boxing Day can represent a difficult trip for football supporters with disruptions to public transport, but the Whites faithful are travelling in their numbers to Ipswich – our fourth successive Boxing Day away from Craven Cottage.

Speaking to the official website, our Club Captain stated: "Full credit to all the supporters who come with us when we travel away.

"Especially at Christmas time when there's no trains running and there's a lot of family activities going on. Hopefully we can get the three points for the fans to send them home happy.

"We're under no illusions what it's going to be like. Mick McCarthy's teams are always tough to play against. We know what the job in hand is and what we're going to need to do to get a result."

Fulham head to Portman Road on the back of a four-game unbeaten run, and while Parker thinks his team should have gained more than eight points in that time, he insists confidence is high in the camp.

"We'd have liked to have turned a couple of points into three but we're playing well and we've had some good results along the way," he stated. "So we're going into the game very confident.

"It's a big time for us over Christmas, as always, so we need to try and get as many points as we can and go from there.

"Our last result was a little bit disappointing, 2-1 up and we couldn't hold onto it. The other teams around us all got results, but that's what it's going to be like. If you want to be challenging in the top-six then you've got to win games.

"We can't be looking over our shoulders or worrying about other teams, we know exactly what we need to do, and hopefully we can do that."


http://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2016/december/25/scott-parker-credit-to-the-fans

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All We Want For Christmas is a Steady Back Four
As Fulham hit Boxing Day, let's take a look at their underlying numbers

Happy Holidays to all from the Cottagers Confidential family!,

With Mike Rigg gone as Chief Football Officer of Fulham, somebody has got to promote advanced statistics for Fulham. But unlike Craig Kline and the rest of the Fulham management team, we at Cottagers Confidential are willing to show our data towards you, the readers.

Anywho, on to the football and numbers.

What Do You Expect? Fulham Are Good
Boxing Day will be the beginning of an arduous stretch for football clubs across all of England. For Fulham, they will be playing three games in one week before a miserable 11:30 am local time start to their FC Cup match with Cardiff City. So now is a time to reflect on how the boys from the SW6 and their underlying numbers are doing and what they need to do to get them to their ultimate goal: promotion to the Premier League.

Since my last update, Fulham have improved not just their place in the standings (11th to 8th) and their goal differential (-1 to +10), but they have also improved in expected goals. Based on the quality of every shot from the Championship this season, Fulham's expected goals for percentage has gone from 51.4% to 55.7% according to Ben Mayhew of experimental361. Based on that ratio, Fulham's style of play has now become one of the most effective in the Championship. If anything, Fulham have been expected to win every game based on their performances since the Queen's Park Rangers game (Gameweek 11).

In greater detail, Fulham have now scored 38 goals in the Championship while generating a total of 35.1 expected goals. On the other end, they have given up 28 goals while they are supposed to give up 27.9 of them. In short, Fulham are mostly playing to the level they should be playing. While that may be a good thing to observe, it shows that they can't rely on "bad luck" as an excuse for them not to make it into the top six of the Championship table.

So on that note, what does Fulham need to do to improve?

Exposing the Back
One thing that Slavisa Jokanovic will have to solve is how his team can have a stable defensive line. This season, Fulham have had eight defenders play over 500 minutes of Championship action. That standard is a little more than one-quarter of all the minutes Fulham have played this campaign. If you compare that to all Championship clubs that have been promoted in the last three years, you won't see that many defenders from each club play 1,000 minutes out of a possible 4,140 minutes. The only exception was the 2014-15 Watford side that played with a back three for half of their season.

Along with that, 41 of the 55 recognized defenders above recorded an average rating of seven or above from whoscored.com. Only Tomas Kalas and Ryan Fredericks have met that standard among the eight Fulham defenders this season. While ratings are usually arbitrary and don't tell the whole story of how well a footballer performs, no matter what resource you look at, they can be used to display an abridged version of game-to-game performance.

Fulham fans have been forgetting what life is like to have a stable back four. Unlike previous campaigns, it seems more like injuries this season are preventing the Cottagers from having that cohesiveness more so than having enough talent. Thanks to Jokanovic's transfers, the most ideal back four for Fulham has become Fredericks, Kalas, Michael Madl and Scott Malone. The remainder of Denis Odoi, Ragnur Sigurdsson, Tim Ream and Ryan Sessegnon may not be good enough to guide Fulham to Premier League promotion, but are good enough to provide stopgap performances here in their in the long Championship campaign.

As stated before, Jokanovic loves having his fullbacks be more attack-minded presences that can contribute to the speed of Fulham's attacking players in Tom Cairney, Chris Martin, Lucas Piazon, Sone Aluko and Floyd Ayite. While being so aggressive, that leads to having the center backs exposed, especially if those two defenders don't have the defensive minded holding midfielders of Kevin McDonald or Scott Parker recovering fast enough to help them out. With that, having calmness under pressure with the ball is critical to play center back in Jokanovic's tactics.

8You certainly will not see a Fulham center back being so workman-like that they will throw their body everywhere. However, it is quite evident in the underlying numbers that Kalas and Madl are the best in that department while making the simple passes required. When you combine possession-adjusted tackles, possession-adjusted interceptions and shots blocked, Kalas and Madl both record 5.17 and 5.18 of these events per 90 minutes, respectively. Meanwhile, Sigurdsson and Ream are averaging 2.82 and 3.31 of these events per 90 minutes, respectively.

It's quite evident that Fulham's alternatives have plenty of flaws. Ream has reached career worsts in events where he has been dribbled passed and has continued to struggle mightily in clearing the ball out of dangerous situations. Meanwhile, Sigurdsson has looked a shell of himself since his transfer from Krasnador. The Icelandic international has not been able to win aerial duels, make the timely interceptions and connect on his long ball passes like he did in the Russian Super League. Whether that is adjusting to the English game or hitting the wrong side of 30 years old is a bit of a mystery for now, but it is something Jokanovic will have to pay attention to for the long term.

If there's a perfect example of observing Jokanovic's tactics statistically, it's observing the football radars for both right backs used this campaign. It cannot be stated enough how much Scott Malone is not a natural defender. But when he receives the ball, the former Cardiff City fullback is really good at darting forward and delivering crosses that can threaten the opposing penalty area. Meanwhile, Ryan Sessegnon can deliver the same type of aggression, but while his football radar is shaped like a butterfly, he is still in his cacoon faze as a footballer. He will need another campaign or three for the 16-year old to develop the skills necessary to become a starting fullback in the top two tier leagues in English football. Combined, the two have put up four goals and three assists in the Championship.

Lastly, we need to talk about what's going on at left back. While Denis Odoi and Ryan Fredericks can drive forward attacking possession, it is quite clear that Fredericks is the safer of the two options. Meanwhile, Odoi is willing to put in a good shift by winning interceptions and aerial duels, he will get himself out of positions one too many times that will result in rushes going the other way. On the other side, Fredericks is better off staying in position and can deliver some deadly passes.

If Fulham can find a way to keep the Fredericks-Kalas-Madl-Malone quartet together for as long as possible, they will continue to improve. Until then, it will be difficult to find sustainability defensively and Fulham will continue to not get the results necessary to gain promotion. With Kalas picking up a hamstring injury against Derby County, there's a good chance he'll be out until after the New Year at the earliest. That could mean that Ream or Sigurdsson will have to step up and play well. With Ream rumored to sign with one of the new MLS expansion franchises, Fulham might need to find another center back that can play a bit role in the January transfer window. If Jokanovic can find improvements in defense and maintain the strong possession that they have delivered all year, Fulham will be going places. But until then, they are a side that will struggle to achieve all their goals. They are an improvement from seasons past, but not everything has been completely fixed just yet.


http://cottagersconfidential.sbnation.com/2016/12/26/14078686/all-we-want-for-christmas-is-a-steady-back-four

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Up next: Ipswich Town (a)
by DAN on DECEMBER 26, 2016

Boxing Day sees Fulham travel to Portman Road and prompt the inevitable comparisons with the 10-1 win over Ipswich from 1963. Unbelievably, the Whites haven't won a league game against Town since then – and Slavisa Jokanovic knows just how tough a test will be awaiting his side in Suffolk this afternoon. If there was a manager who could encapsulate the competitiveness and physicality of the Championship, it probably would be wily old Mick McCarthy and his Ipswich team will not give an inch as they look to build on last week's win over Wigan, which arrested an alarming run of four games without a win.

McCarthy, whose sides are known for their abrasiveness, will probably stick with the 4-3-3 system that delivered that important victory at the DW Stadium. Despite sitting in fifteenth place and having been getting used to looking over their shoulder a little too often for comfort already this season, Ipswich's squad contains several high-quality performers. Goalkeeper Bartosz Bia?kowski has to be amongst the best in the league, whilst the experienced Christophe Berra will give former Norwich striker Chris Martin a difficult afternoon. Ipswich might be missing the silky skills of Welsh international Jonny Williams, likely to be sidelined for around three months after having an operation on his injured shoulder, but talented teenager Andre Dozzell – who has already attracted the attention of many a big club – could make his first start of the season.

The Whites will need little reminding of Ipswich's firepower up front. Freddie Sears, who first hit the headlines as a goalscoring youngster at West Ham, found the net after just 16 seconds at Craven Cottage last season and the evergreen Brett Pitman notched the winner in that game. On-loan Welsh forward Tom Lawrence started on the left of the front three at Wigan and could well keep his place, despite David McGoldrick helping to change the game when he came off the bench. McGoldrick's goal consigned Fulham to defeat on the opening day of the 2014/15 season when Felix Magath's youthful side were well beaten – and he remains a potent threat at this level.

Fulham come into this contest buoyed by their performance against in-form Derby County – if not the result they achieved. Scott Malone spoke for many in saying that the Whites have thrown away far too many points in the closing stages of games this season – and the Experimental631 website displayed just how costly those shortcomings have been this week. In their table compiled if matches had finished after 75 minutes, Fulham were comfortably in the play-off places rather than four points outside them. Whilst the Whites enjoyed plenty of possession and rallied impressively after Derby had took the lead, they will need to eliminate the basic defensive mistakes if they have serious ambitions of making the top six.

Jokanovic's key call this afternoon is how to solve the problem at the heart of the Fulham back four. His side went on a seven-match winless streak the last time Tomas Kalas injured a hamstring and, after the Czech centre back limped off last week, they immediately looked more fallible. Icelandic international Ragnar Sigurdsson was hauled off having presented the first goal to Tom Ince and the choice will be between him, Michael Madl and Tim Ream as to who makes up the centre back pairing. The head coach's pre-match comments this week also seem to indicate that he will keep faith with goalkeeper David Button, whose winter form dip is causing quite a bit of concern.

Fulham will hope that the energy of Stefan Johansen and creativity of Tom Cairney can help the Whites settle into their passing rhythms swiftly at Portman Road. The return of Martin, who was ineligible for last weekend's game against his parent club, should offer more of an imposing presence up front – even if Floyd Ayite poached another goal from the forward position against the Rams. Given the impressive amount of chances Jokanovic's side are creating, it is little surprise that they trail only Newcastle in the Championship's goalscoring charts – even though there is a sense that, with all their domination of games, the Whites should actually be finding the net more regularly.

MY FULHAM XI (4-1-2-3): Bettinelli; Fredericks, Malone, Madl, Sigurdsson; McDonald; Johansen, Cairney; Ayite, Aluko, Martin. Subs: Button, Sessegnon, Ream, Parker, Piazon, Smith, Humphrys.


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Chris Martin: Arsenal legend Ian Wright was my boyhood hero

Fulham striker Chris Martin has revealed that Arsenal legend Ian Wright was his boyhood hero.

The former Gunners star – now-turned football pundit – made a huge impact at Highbury following his move from Crystal Palace in September 1991 as he went on to win every domestic honour with the club.

Furthermore, he scored a total of 185 goals for the north London outfit, breaking Cliff Bastin's goalscoring record in the process – a honour which he held until being surpassed by Thierry Henry – and Martin has spoken of his admiration for Wright.

"Ian Wright. I was an Arsenal fan growing up and I always used to watch him, being a striker. Then after him, Thierry Henry but I was a little bit older then," Martin said in a q&A with the Daily Mail.

"Even from a young age, I used to watch a hell of a lot of football and try and pick up as many things as possible. I used to love Ian Wright's enthusiasm, how he played the game, always played with a smile on his face.

"He was a really top quality player who scored lots of goals, which I loved as well.

"He's very similar now as a pundit, which is why people warm to him. He's got a great enthusiasm for the game and that comes out – which is a good thing because there are a hell of a lot of people who are a bit straight-faced.

"He's always got a smile on his face and he says it how it is, no sugar-coating it."

Martin is currently on a season-long loan deal at Craven Cottage having joined on transfer deadline day in the summer from Derby County and has weighed in with six goals as well as one assist in 13 Championship appearances.

He missed the 2-2 draw with his parent club last time out but will be available for selection once again as Fulham travel to Portman Road for a Boxing Day clash with Ipswich Town as they look to keep up their play-off push.

Chris Martin has won 43% of headed duels for Fulham in the Championship this season.


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